Sentences with phrase «nothing came to a vote»

Nothing came to a vote because Skelos» fellow Republicans refused to officially «recognize» the motion that was sitting on the desk.

Not exact matches

«In a campaign cycle that has been nothing but a race to the bottom — at such a critical moment for our nation — and with so many who have tried to be respectful of a record primary vote, the time has come for Governor Pence to lead the ticket,» Huntsman told the Salt Lake Tribune.

It's like when Americans come to Japan and pretend that their gun control laws (10 gun deaths last year) mean nothing, because they don't understand freedom (Japan is pretty democratic, and unlike the US they use that democracy to vote out their Prine Ministers about every year — pretty sure they understand democracy!).

The Republican went on to say (paraphrasing here) «what if we come back Christmas week and authorize the pay commission and then they still vote against a raise only to have Cuomo turn around and say there is nothing he could do since the Commission is independent.»

«WFP should learn from this rejection that power for working people comes from their independent political action, not acting as a faction of the Democratic coalition and handing over their votes to the corporate - dominated Democratic Party, which then takes their votes for granted and reduces their leverage and power to nothing.

He stated, «A situation whereby, a man we voted for, now comes out openly and with audacity, to state that he needs to consult «his boss», who isn't even from Kwara South, is nothing but a violation of our human and democratic rights.»

During the period I was working on this book, British politics sometimes seemed to be tracking my early 19th century course, as topics like voting and the House of Lords regularly came up for discussion, to say nothing of popular demonstrations; parallels are, however, for the reader to draw.

What does not make it any since, the Democratic candidate could the second coming of Ronald Reagan, but if he is going to cast his first vote for John Sampson as leader, nothing else really matters, now does it.

The numbers speak for themselves, since coming to congress, Bill Owens has been a nothing more than a reliable vote sitting in Nancy Pelosi's back pocket,» Spain said.

Speaking at the Campaign Launch of Abigail Elorm Mensah, the NDC parliamentary candidate for the Fanteakwa South, he said that since NDC came to power they have given top positions to krobos's without discriminating against them, so the people of krobo should therefore not make any mistake by voting for the NPP Since they have nothing to offer the people of krobo.

While nothing's been inked, people said Klein and Stewart - Cousins would each have to sign off on bills before they came to a floor vote.

While some will vote for Nigel Farage's party come what may, others will only do so if they feel they have nothing to lose — that there is so little at stake in 2015 that it hardly matters who wins.

I urge you to have a rethink and vote PDP out come 2015 because they lost bearing and have nothing left to offer.Shine your eyes in 2015!

It's perhaps a minor complaint but there's little or nothing until the very end of the piece about the difficulties that organizers have encountered in New York City when it comes to unionized charters (and no mention at all of the a well - publicized situation in which teachers at KIPP AMP voted to join the union then changed their minds).